Backtrace analysis of bugs across components suggests the actual bug might be in component glib2 or gtk3 instead of component nautilus. You might want to inspect the backtraces from the bugs listed below to find out the correct component.
Bugs which were found to be similar to this bug:
transmission: bug #767982, bug #768679
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I have opened .zip archive, opened some files from it (just to read them). After some time (minutes) I clicked on another file from archive, then file-roller crashed.
backtrace_rating: 4
Package: file-roller-3.2.1-2.fc16
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

I was using Transmission to download a torrent, which was "stuck" with just two files missing from completion. I was able to locate the files elsewhere, and with the torrent still running (perhaps a mistake?), I copied the first file to the clipboard from its alternate location, then pasted it into its destination directory of the torrent (among many subdirectories), where it was previously missing (not pre-allocated). As soon as I issued the Paste command, nautilus was killed.
backtrace_rating: 4
Package: nautilus-3.2.1-2.fc16
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

Had two windows open, one containing two tabs. On of those tabs was an sftp connection to a server on the local network. Nautilus suddenly closed when right clicking with two files selected in the sftp tab.
backtrace_rating: 4
Package: nautilus-3.2.1-2.fc16
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

All I did was delete a file in Nautilus using ctrl+delete. As soon as I did that, Nautilus crashed.
backtrace_rating: 4
Package: nautilus-3.2.1-2.fc16
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

Had 2 nautilus windows open, comparing to see if all files copied from SD card.
One pane was scrolled to bottom so I was leaning on the up arrow key and waiting for it to get to the top.
backtrace_rating: 4
Package: nautilus-3.2.1-2.fc16
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

I was looking at files in nautilus /home/bart/Music, this was before I called someone using skype.
backtrace_rating: 4
Package: nautilus-3.2.1-2.fc16
Architecture: x86_64
OS Release: Fedora release 16 (Verne)

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